Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
  • B65D85/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
  • B65D85/46—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for bricks, tiles or building blocks
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
  • B65D81/02—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents specially adapted to protect contents from mechanical damage
  • B65D81/05—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents specially adapted to protect contents from mechanical damage maintaining contents at spaced relation from package walls, or from other contents
  • B65D81/053—Corner, edge or end protectors
  • B65D81/055—Protectors contacting three surfaces of the packaged article, e.g. three-sided edge protectors
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
  • B65D81/02—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents specially adapted to protect contents from mechanical damage
  • B65D81/05—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents specially adapted to protect contents from mechanical damage maintaining contents at spaced relation from package walls, or from other contents
  • B65D81/053—Corner, edge or end protectors
  • B65D81/058—Protectors contacting five surfaces of the packaged article, e.g. five-sided end protectors
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
  • B65D85/62—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for stacks of articles; for special arrangements of groups of articles
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D2571/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans, pop bottles; Bales of material
  • B65D2571/00006—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
  • B65D2571/00111—Arrangements of flexible binders
  • B65D2571/00117—Arrangements of flexible binders with protecting or supporting elements arranged between binder and articles or materials, e.g. for preventing chafing of binder

Definitions

• the present invention relates to the technical sector relating to packing flat articles, in particular ceramic articles, with particular reference to a packing method and the pack obtained with the method.
• the invention concerns flat articles having a polygonal shape, in particular quadrangular, such as slabs and ceramic tiles, as well as materials which can also be arranged in stacks.
• Methods are currently known for the packing of stacks of tiles having a square and/or rectangular geometry using prescored blanks that are slightly longer than the lateral extension of the stacks, comprising a central area to which four pairs of folds, lower and upper, are articulated by crease lines.
• the central zone of the blank is wrapped on the lateral flanks of the stack and blocked at the ends by a "glue spot".
• the lower and upper folds of the blank are folded on the lower and upper surfaces of the stack, for partial covering of the surfaces.
• This method provides for the predisposing of a structure in a packaging material provided with a series of weakened lines for folding about at least a plate-shaped article; the predisposition providing, in order, the following operational steps: . preparation of at least a length of packing material for each side of the plate- shaped part to be packaged; weakening of each length along at least two predetermined fold lines; the consecutive joining of the lengths such as to define a frame having a polygonal shape, the shape of which reproduces the polygonal shape of the form of the article to be packaged.
• each length comprises the following steps: providing two or more supply panels in series; consecutively connecting the panels to form a continuous strip which extends predominantly along a predetermined development direction; cutting the continuous strip transversally to the development direction thereof, according to a set measurement depending on the side of the polygonal shape of the article to be packaged.
• the perimeter frame obtained does not continuously protect the longitudinal edges of the stacked tiles due to the presence of corresponding slots resulting from the assembly method of the frame, obtained starting from a plurality of portions at least equal in number to the number of sides of the tiles.
• the aim of the present invention is to obviate the above problems by providing a method for packaging flat articles, and a package obtained with the method, which enables extremely effective protection of the articles, as well as the corresponding edges, in particular during the steps of storage and/or transport.
• a further aim is to provide a method and a pack capable of limiting the use of packing material and glue with respect to known methods.
• a method for packing at least a flat article comprising two opposite surfaces, upper and lower, having a quadrangular geometry and a plurality of lateral flanks
• the method being characterised in that it comprises following steps: supplying a pair of blanks made of a packing material, each comprising a central region; an upper flap connected to a first side of the central region by means of a first crease line; a lower flap connected to a second side, opposite the first side, of the central region by means of a second crease line; a first lateral flap, connected to a third side of the central region by means of a third crease line, identifying a free end opposite the third crease line; a pair of first folds, an upper fold and a lower fold, connected by crease lines to two sides of the first lateral flap which folds are opposite one another and perpendicular to the third crease line; a second lateral flap connected to a fourth side, opposite the third side, of the central region by means
• the method comprises one or more of the following characteristics, considered singly or in combination: stabilising of the superposing zones comprises binding the article by means of at least two first straps loop-wound on the covered lateral flanks of the central regions of the blanks, with each first strap interesting, for each surface of the article, two corner superposing zones and a second lateral superposing zone; stabilising of the superposing zones comprises binding the article by means of at least three second straps loop-wound on the lateral flanks not covered by the central regions of the blanks, with each second strap interesting, for each surface of the article, two corner superposing zones or two second laterally superposing zones; stabilising of the superposing zones comprises using adhesive means interposed between folds or flaps of the blanks nvolved in the superposing; during the step of supplying the blanks, each thereof comprises four cut lines, each of which separates an upper or lower flap from the corresponding upper folds or lower folds; the cut lines preferably diver
• a pack characterised in that it comprises: at least a flat article identifying two opposite surfaces, upper and lower, having a quadrangular geometry and a plurality of lateral flanks; a pair of blanks made of a packing material, each comprising a central region; an upper flap connected to a first side of the central region by means of a first crease line; a lower flap connected to a second side, opposite the first side, of the central region by means of a second crease line; a first lateral flap, connected to a third side of the central region by means of a third crease line, identifying a free end opposite the third crease line; a pair of first folds, an upper fold and a lower fold, connected by crease lines to two sides of the first lateral flap which are opposite one another and perpendicular to the third crease line; a second lateral flap connected to a fourth side, opposite the third side, of the central region by means of a fourth crease line, identifying a
• the pack of the invention comprises one or more of the following characteristics, considered singly or in combination: the stabilising means comprise at least two first straps loop-wound on the covered lateral flanks of the central regions of the blanks with each first strap interesting, for each surface of the article, two corner superposing zones and a second lateral superposing zone; the stabilising means comprise at least three second straps, loop-wound on the lateral flanks not covered by the central regions of the blanks, with each second strap interesting, for each surface of the article, two corner superposing zones or two second laterally superposing zones; the stabilising means comprise adhesive means interposed between folds or flaps of the blanks involved in the superposing; each blank comprises four cut lines, each of which separates an upper or lower flap from the corresponding upper folds or lower folds, the cut lines preferably diverging distancingly from the central region; the flat article comprises a tile or a ceramic slab, or a stack of tiles and/or ceramic slabs.
• figure 1 is a perspective view of a schematic sequence diagram of t e method for packing of a stack of tiles
• figure 2 shows, in enlarged scale, an exploded perspective view of the stack of tiles and the corresponding packing blanks
• figures 3A, 3B show, in enlarged scale, corresponding perspective views of the packing blanks of figure 2
• figure 4 illustrates a plan view of a blank shown in figures 3A, 3B
• figures 5, 6 show, in enlarged scale, corresponding perspective views of two embodiments of the pack obtained with the present method
• figures 5a, 5b illustrate, in an enlarged scale, details Y1 , Y2 indicated in figure
• general references 3, 4 denote a pair of blanks made of a packaging material, e.g. cardboard, each comprising a central region 5; an upper flap 6 connected to a first side of the central region 5 by means of a first crease line; a lower flap 7 connected to a second side, opposite the first side, of the central region 5 by means of a second crease line; a first lateral flap 8, connected to a third side of the central region 5 by means of a third crease line, identifying a free end 8a opposite the third crease line; a pair of first folds, an upper fold 80 and a lower fold 81 , connected by crease lines to two sides of the first lateral flap 8 which folds 80, 81 are opposite one another and perpendicular to the third crease line; a second lateral flap 9 connected to a fourth side, opposite the third side, of the central region 5 by means of a fourth crease line, identifying a free end 9a opposite the fourth crease line; a pair of second lateral flap 9 connected to
• the proposed method for packaging at least a flat article 2 comprising two opposing sides, upper and lower, in a quadrangular geometry and a plurality of lateral sides, to comprise the following steps: supplying the pair of blanks 3, 4; covering two opposite lateral flanks of the article 2 with the central region 5 of each blank 3, 4; partial covering of the opposite surfaces of the article 2 with the upper flap 6 and lower flap 7 of each blank 3, 4; covering the remaining lateral flanks of the article 2 with the first and second lateral flaps 8, 9 of each blank 3, 4 such as to superpose the free ends 8a, 9a of the lateral flaps 8, 9 of a blank 3 with corresponding free ends 8a, 9a of the lateral flaps 8, 9 of the other blank 4, such as to identify two zones U of first lateral superposing; partial covering of the opposite surfaces of the article 2 with the first folds 80, 81 and the second folds 90, 91 of each blank 3, 4, such as to define, for each surface of the article 2, four zones A of corner superposing in which one of the flap
• the flat article 2 can comprise either, a ceramic tile or slab, or a stack of tiles and/or ceramic slabs.
• each thereof comprises four cut lines 12, each of which separates an upper or lower flap 6, 7 from the corresponding upper folds 80, 90 or lower folds 81 , 91 , as can be deduced from figures 3A and 3B.
• the cut lines 12 are preferably divergent, distancingly from the central region 5 such as to facilitate realisation of the corner superposing zones A.
• the stabilising of the superposing zones L-, , L 2 , A comprises binding the article 2 by means of at least two first straps 10 for example plastic straps loop-wound on the lateral flanks not covered by the central regions 5 of the blanks 3, 4.
• each strap 10 interests, for each surface of the article 2, two comer superposing zones A or two second laterally superposing zones L 2 , as shown in figure 5.
• the stabilising of the superposing zones L 2 , A comprises binding the article 2 by means of at least three second straps 1 1 for example plastic straps loop-wound on the lateral flanks not covered by the central regions 5 of the blanks 3, 4.
• each strap 1 1 interests, for each surface of the article 2, two corner superposing zones A or two second laterally superposing zones L 2 , as shown in figure 6.
• a pair of straps 11 loop-closes on the flaps, upper 6 and lower 7, and on the flaps, first 8 and second 9, of the respective blanks 3, 4, while the remaining strap 11 loop-closes on the opposite surfaces of the article 2 and on the respective lateral superposing zones, first U and second L 2 .
• the stabilising of the superposing zones Li, L 2 , A can comprise using spots of glue interposed between folds 80, 81 , 90, 91 or flaps 6, 7 of the blanks 3, 4 involved in the superposing.
• the longitudinal extension of the pair of blanks 3, 4, evaluated along the longitudinal direction of the central region 5 and the adjacent side flaps, first 8 and second 9, may therefore be the same, identifying specular blanks; or they can be different.
• a first blank 3 can be provided having side flaps 8, 9 exhibiting a same longitudinal extension, and a second blank 4 provided with lateral flaps 8, 9 having a same longitudinal extent, the latter, however, being different from the corresponding lateral flaps 8, 9 of the first blank 3.
• first l_i and second L 2 due to the overlap of the side flaps 8, 9 and the corresponding upper flaps 80, 90 and lower 81 , 91 of the blanks 3, 4, it is possible to use a same format of blanks 3, 4 for a wide range of sizes of articles 2. According to requirements it is also possible to provide different longitudinal extensions to the lateral flaps 8, 9 of a blank 3, 4 or both.
• the stabilising of the overlapping zones L 2 , A can be achieved, in an advantageous way, with the help only of two or three plastic straps per pack, i.e. without any aid with the use of glue figures 5, 6.
• the proposed method and the associated package are particularly recommended also in the case of packing flat articles of relatively large dimensions, where the thicknesses of the articles and consequently of the corresponding blanks become extremely small.
• the proposed method and the associated pack do not suffer from the problems caused, on the one hand, to the squaring of the frame formed by a plurality of portions of reduced thickness, and on the other hand to the difficulty of printing in the areas of connection of the lengths themselves.
• the blanks can be adapted to a wide range of sizes of articles to be packed.
• the proposed method and the associated pack therefore enables limiting the use of packaging material and glue in comparison with the prior art.

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